I am going to tell my son the truth..

[Apolona1721]

Btw if you still need to purge, talk with a counselor. You too deserve to feel valued and worthy. Don't waste any more of your life feeling you have to forever atone for your 'imperfect' past.

[Nov3]

Your adult son will come to you when you open that Pandora's box. Set out on a lunch date. Rebuild the parent/child dynamic. Let him hear your side in a manner that opens to a discussion.

Be the parent that owns the perceptions.

[Heather72754]

OP I find myself wondering why, after detecting one bruise, the daycare felt they needed to call CPS? That seems a bit extreme unless there was preceding history you haven't shared here.

[Sundaydrive00]

Originally Posted by Heather72754

OP I find myself wondering why, after detecting one bruise, the daycare felt they needed to call CPS? That seems a bit extreme unless there was preceding history you haven't shared here.

I was wondering that too. I'm a preschool teacher and have never called CPS over a bruise. There seems to be more to the story if this bruise was enough for CPS to remove the child from the OP's custody.

[ukiyo-e]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

I was wondering that too. I'm a preschool teacher and have never called CPS over a bruise. There seems to be more to the story if this bruise was enough for CPS to remove the child from the OP's custody.

When you read so many stories of a child dying due to abuse even after CPS was involved in the case but the child wasn't removed from the home, this made no sense to me, either.